MINING NEWS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13372, 23 August 1907, Page 5

MINING NEWS.

Press Association-By Telegraph-Copyright SYDNEY, August 21. The production of the Broken Hill Proprietary mine for -the half-year untied May, was valued at £829,445. The net profits were over £308,000. MAORILAND COPPER COMPANY. The general manager of the Maoriland Copper Company reports, under date August 16, its follows: United .Mine, No. 7 level.—No. 2 crosscut has been extended 6 feet, and is now in a total of 28 feet, the ground driven through being a very hard bar of s.andstone, but to-day a change for the better seems coming in. No. 1 crosiicut, No. 7 level, has bean put' in 2 feet for the week, a total distance of 17 feet 6 inches-, without any change. No. 5 Level Winze. — The crosscuL at the bottom of this winze"wai-; put in 11 feet for the week. The ore body wt-nt in flat, the ore allowing three to four feet thick. We have, now started to continue th? winze down. We have sunk 5 feet- for the week, the total depth being 53 feel. Mounter Mine. —The winze has been fiunk" 4 feet'for'the week.' The lode 'is now much broken and making more water, but the assay shows 6.325 per cent, copper. We have now .buen'prospecting and trenching to trace the lode to the cast. The ore from trench are-ays at 10.70 p;r cent, copper, as compared with 1.51 per cent, the previous week. Champion Mine.—The main drive has now been cleared out and repaired for 200 feet from the mouth. The water in the winze has gone down, as the water ha'i been pumped out of the main shaft. We are now pumping three shifts as the water has been lowered sufficiently to communicate with the drive running under (lie creek, and which' i.s a few hundred feet, long, and depth being between 120 and 130 feet. General.—The pulleys wjuir-ed for the saw-bench should be to hand during Ui.'e. week, a.s '-the alterations were finished in Nelson yesterday. It is to be hoped that in a. short time we will have more miners available for (he work. The winding engine for the Champion Mine is: at Richmond, and should be here in the course of a day or two. While in Nelson I saw again about the fords required, and the district engineer fsiid that he intended to clear a track through the bush on Crown 'ands for the telephone to Nelson, so that this work should be get on with as soo.u a-si practicable, the wire, and insulators necesi'a.i-y bring nearly to hand, the intention b'-inp- (o connect -Hi« mines' ofliivs at Aniseed Valley with Nelson.